The following sites provide tcl support for those of us on a budget (Doug 1/29/08, updated 1/29/09):
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peterc 20080703: Another option to consider is the number of virtual machine hosting companies around now. Rather than an account on a server, you get a virtual server you can manage yourself, typically with a set amount of devoted resources available to it.
Most will offer Microsoft Windows Server (possibly at a premium due to the extra costs of support and security) or a Linux distribution such as Debian or Redhat. Some will support other OSes like FreeBSD if you ask. From there, you can install whatever your heart desires to provide your Tcl based web services.
NeoSoft offers NeoWebScript servers as part of its standard Web-hosting. I don't think they advertise it, though, nor do the salefolk seem to realize it's available. Maybe that will turn out to be (sadly) true of many of the entries here.
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LV Is Neosoft even around any longer? I thought they disappeared at the end of last year.
Neosoft was bought out by Internet America but dynamis.net [L7 ] is still hosting Neowebscript sites, in fact they're advertising it on the radio this week right along with PHP. - Tom 4-20-04
davidw Jim McNamara reports that ipowerweb.com supports Rivet on their servers. (2005-4-15)
Jacob Levy (03/19/2003) I offer shell and web access to a CoLo box. I've got Apache and tclHTTPd and AOLserver running already. You can run your own servers.
Contact [email protected] for details.
Hurricane Electric, the great earth mother of all web-hosting companies, does Tcl:
Talked to one of the admins at Hurricane Electric and confirmed that they have Tcl 8.4.16 on their latest servers. -- 2009/02/02 JJM
Here is a trivial tclsh cgi I just whipped up as proof of concept:
Oops! Looks like I need to talk to them about that...
Okay, I talked to Michael Bernardo at he.net, and he says that since all users get a shell account, they can compile their own tcl right there in their home directory and go to town!
[others]
http://www.zill.net offers AOLserver as part of their OpenACS offering, which is TCL 8.3.2 based.
Occassionally, hosting can be found simply by searching on google with 'mod_dtcl hosting' or similar queries.
Dynamis of Houston offers Neowebscript web hosting for server-side TCL, and even offers secure (SSL) Neowebscript forms hosting with online credit card processing. They appear to have several customers already running the online portions of their major bricks-and-mortar operations on their service, all based on Neowebscript (server-side TCL) scripting:
Note that Gerald Lester has written, "I find it important to be able to build my own shell and extensions -- the hosting service may not have the combination that you like or stay up to (or back on) the version you want or need."
http://www.puretec.de offers a "root server", a Linux box with root access. Just install your preferred modules (mod_dtcl, mod_websh, ...). US ... [But it's apparently available in German only - LES]
TP Although I haven't used one yet, the hosting providers that offer User Mode Linux (uml) [L8 ] Virtual Private Servers seem to be way cool. You get your own virtual server, your own root filesystem, IP addresses, and are free to load up on whatever nice software you want (Tcl, of course).
Prices and services vary, some of the better deals look to be competitive with traditional hosting providers. For example, $20 US a month buys you a 64 mb ram, 4 gb disk, RedHat 8 or Debian 3 root filesystem, one static IP, 30 gb/month bandwidth allowance, ~ 120 mhz cpu (20 virtual servers on a 2.4 ghz Intel box, probably better in actual practice). Certainly should be enough horse power for average users. Capabilities and prices go up from there.
Try Googling for linux virtual private server hosting or linux uml virtual server hosting.
DRH FWIW, I keep http://www.sqlite.org/ and http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/ and several other websites on a single user-mode-linux virtual machine, packaged and sold by http://www.linode.com/ . The service has been good for a couple of years now. I run CGI scripts using whatever version of TCL I want (currently 8.4.something).
CMcC seconds that. This very wiki runs on a linode, and I'd thoroughly recommend them.
stevel thirds that - another happy Linode customer
peterc fourths that. Recently signed up (July 2010) and I'm very impressed so far.
Apoto is one of the famous hosting provider that provide every kind of hosting solutions including email hosting, VPS, Dedicated, Reseller web hosting on Linux and window platform
: http://www.apoto.com : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_hosting_service
TP There is a such a project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnutsp
http://www.olm.net has a Tcl 8.0 tclsh (although they advertise 7.6). They have been a pretty decent (and cheap) web host for me. Todd Coram
Hostway, at http://www.hostway.com is another good one
http://www.fredericksburgbusiness.com has apache rivet installed and working for .rvt files.
--- Deepwoods Software, at http://www.deepsoft.com/ does. And the sysadmin really knows how to use Tcl...
neuSteps provides B.Serve Virtual Private Server (VPS). B.Serve VPS, comes with the industry leading hosting automation software, HSPComplete, that lets you manage your web site more efficiently and brings together the best of both worlds; the control of a dedicated server and the affordability of shared hosting.
Here in neuSteps, we use Tcl for our clients as well. With B.Serve VPS, you can easily stay in control of your application environment; your choice of application environment will not affect other clients and vice versa. Unlike shared hosting, an upgrade in environment will result in all sites (or clients) having the same environment or application upgrade.
FW: ICDSoft [L9 ], Interland [L10 ], and iPowerWeb [L11 ] all support Tcl 8.3, I believe. I heartily recommend iPowerWeb to anyone who needs a personal host; the standard package (around $8/mo) has 700MB diskspace and 40GB transfer. On a very decent connection, too. Excellent support, everything.
Hmm... can we spin this discussion into "how to choose a good Web host"? When I see "we have a Control Panel", I read: "we provide the means for newbies to manage everything more easily". But when I see a Control Panel and no SSH, I read: "we have clearly defined the limits of what you can do and expect you to have a lot of patience clicking things and waiting for them to (re)load in every single tiny goddamn change". Oh, and your browser had better be compatible with our control panel too...
A host that won't let users have SSH is most often afraid of what users can do with it. In other words, they acknowledge that they are not competent enough to run such service and maintain a good security level at the same time.
LES hosts at phpwebhosting [L12 ]. They're good because they are cheap and you get everything you will ever find in other hosts' packages and no ridiculous limits, like half a dozen POP3 boxes. They even let me edit my .qmail file, which is too precious a feature to me. The only thing you don't get much is support and I do have problems once in a while. Anyway, they run Tcl 8.3.
Another one to the list: rootr.net [L13 ]. The whole thing sounds a bit too good to be true, but anyway...
LES on 18 Apr, 2005: that's been more than one year since I mentioned rootr.net here. I have been hosting my main site with them since then and I can say it is very good. OpenBSD, everything is very well kept and organized. Support is good too. They run some rather old version of Tcl, but also provide full SSH access and let me install my own Tcl and extensions in my home directory. The only bad thing is that their server is in Hong Kong. That makes e-mail and SSH considerably slow. But it still is a very good and *extremely* affordable host.
Inet-Interactif.com (Services d'hébergement web i.e. web Hosting] [L14 ] provides the RIVET Apache module enabled on its server from 2004-03-31. Experience on this provider is good overall and prices are amenable to non profit uses and high end as well.
A related topic is Web servers which provide native Tcl support.
Another related topic is What low cost ISPs include Tcl server side scripting capability, although the information there seems quite dated.
http://polarhome.com/ is an interesting place
Here's [L15 ] a little sqlite database served with tclkit that Eric Amundsen has hosted there
eGlueWeb [L16 ]
Demo page at http://egluewebdemo.com/cgi-bin/env.tcl
Lectus: Are there any free one that offer Tcl?
RLH None that I know of. NearlyFreeSpeech has a very low (couple of dollars) startup cost if you are just wanting to learn to use Tcl in a web context.
Precisium from Austarlia: Version offered is 8.5+ (so I guess even 8.6) and they seem keen on SQLite as well.
Full details: Precisium Tcl Page
Not in any particular order...
| Hosting Company | Tcl Version |
|---|---|
| https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ | 8.4.19 and 8.5.7 |
| http://outshinesolutions.com/web-hosting/ | 8.4.17 |
| http://www.webhostingjack.in/ | 8.4.18 |
| http://www.hosteurope.de/ | 8.4.19 |
| http://www.olm.net | 8.0 |
| http://www.icdsoft.net | 8.3 |
| http://www.interland.com/ | 8.3 |
| http://www.ipowerweb.com/ | 8.3 |
| http://www.webpub.net/tcl/ | 8.5 and later |